The American Music Awards (AMAs) is an annual American music awards show, created by Dick Clark in 1973 for ABC when the network's contract to air the Grammy Awards expired.[1] Unlike the Grammys, which are awarded on the basis of votes by members of the Recording Academy, the AMAs are determined by a poll of the public and fans, who can vote through the AMAs website,[2] the award statuette is manufactured by New York firm Society Awards.

While the Grammy Awards are awarded based on votes by members of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the AMAs are determined by a poll of music buyers and the public, the American Music Awards have nominations based on sales, airplay, activity on social networks, and video viewing. Before 2010 had nominations based only on sales and airplay and nominated every work, even if old, the Grammys have nominations based on vote of the Academy and only nominate a work from their eligibility period that changes often.[5][6][7]

The first hosts for the first telecast of the AMAs were Helen Reddy, Roger Miller, and Smokey Robinson. Helen Reddy not only hosted the show but also became the first female artist to win an AMA for Favorite Pop/Rock Female artist, for the first decade or so, the AMAs had multiple hosts, each representing a genre of music. For instance, Glen Campbell would host the country portion (Campbell, in fact, has co-hosted the AMAs more times than any other host or co-host), while other artists would co-host to represent his/her genre; in recent years, however, there has been one single host.

From its inception in 1973 until 2003, the AMAs have been held in mid- to late-January, but were moved to November (usually the Sunday before Thanksgiving) beginning in 2003 so as not to further compete with other major awards shows (such as the Golden Globe Awards and the Academy Awards) and allows for ABC to have a well-rated awards show during November sweeps.

For the 2008 awards, Jimmy Kimmel hosted for the fourth consecutive year; in 2009–2012, there was no host for the first time in history. Instead, the AMAs followed the Grammys' lead in having various celebrities give introductions. However, rapper Pitbull hosted the 2013 ceremony and 2014 ceremony. Jennifer Lopez hosted the 2015 show.[8]Gigi Hadid and Jay Pharoah hosted the 2016 show. Tracee Ellis Ross hosted the show in 2017.

Between 2012 and 2014, as part of a marketing strategy for Samsung, the American Music Awards used the lock screenwallpaper of Samsung Galaxy series mobile phone handsets rather than envelopes to reveal winners. A magnetic screen cover on each phone kept the wallpaper image with the winner's name secret until opened,[9] the Billboard Music Awards, also an ABC awards show produced by Dick Clark Productions, also used Samsung Galaxy handsets to reveal winners. Traditional envelopes returned during DCP's 2015 music awards ceremonies.

The record for most American Music Awards won is held by Michael Jackson, who has amassed twenty-four awards, the record for most American Music Awards won by a group belongs to Alabama, who have collected twenty-three awards. For a female artist, the record for most American Music Awards won belongs to singer Whitney Houston who has won twenty-one awards.[10]

The record for the most American Music Awards won in a single year is held by Michael Jackson (in 1984) and Whitney Houston (in 1994), each with 8 awards to their credit (including the Award of Merit, with which both artists were honored in the respective years).

In 2000, the year Brooks won the award, the AMAs held a poll to elect the Artist of the Decade for each previous decade of the Rock & Roll era. According to some sources, the result of this poll is not counted in the total of AMAs won by these artists.[18][19][20] The results were Elvis Presley (1950s), The Beatles (60s), Stevie Wonder (70s) and Michael Jackson (80s).

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Bruno Mars
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Peter Gene Hernandez, known professionally as Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and choreographer. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, by a family of musicians, Mars began making music at a young age and he graduated from high school and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a musical career. After being dropped by Motown Records, Mars signed a contract with Atlantic Records in 2009. In 2009, he co-founded the production team The Smeezingtons, responsible for the singles Nothin on You by B. o. B and he featured on the hooks for both singles, becoming recognized as a solo artist. His debut studio album Doo-Wops & Hooligans included the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles Just the Way You Are and Grenade and his second album, Unorthodox Jukebox, peaked at number one in the United States. The album spawned the international singles Locked Out of Heaven, When I Was Your Man, in 2014, Mars lent his vocals to Mark Ronsons Uptown Funk. In 2016, he released his studio album 24K Magic with the lead single of the same title released on October 7,2016. To date, he has sold over 100 million singles and albums combined worldwide, Mars has landed six number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 since his career launched in 2010, attaining his first five faster than any male artist since Elvis Presley. Mars has received awards and nominations, including five Grammy Awards. In December 2013, he ranked number one on the Forbes 30 under 30 list, Mars is known for his stage performances and retro showmanship. He is accompanied by his band, The Hooligans, who play a variety of such as electric guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, drums and horns. Mars performs in a range of musical styles. Peter Gene Hernandez was born on October 8,1985, in Honolulu, Hawaii to Peter Hernandez and Bernadette San Pedro Bayot and his father is of half Puerto Rican and half Ashkenazi Jewish descent, and is originally from Brooklyn, New York. His mother emigrated from the Philippines to Hawaii as a child, and was of Filipino and his parents met while performing in a show in which his mother was a hula dancer and his father played percussion. At the age of two, he was nicknamed Bruno by his father, because of his resemblance to professional wrestler Bruno Sammartino. Mars is one of six children and came from a family which exposed him to a diverse mix of genres including, reggae, rock, hip hop. His mother was both a singer and a dancer, and his father performed Little Richard rock and roll music, Mars uncle was an Elvis impersonator, and also encouraged three-year-old Mars to perform on stage. Mars performed songs by such as Michael Jackson, The Isley Brothers

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Niall Horan
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Niall James Horan is an Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known as a member of the boy band One Direction. In 2010, Horan auditioned as a solo artist for the series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor. The five-piece band made it to the final and finished in third place, even though they did not win, One Direction was signed by Simon Cowell to a reported £2 million Syco record contract. In the latter, he played guitar. M. Temporary Fix and Never Enough for the fifth album Made in the A. M. He released his first single as a solo artist, This Town, Niall James Horan was born on 13 September 1993 in Mullingar, Ireland. His parents, Bobby Horan and Maura Gallagher, divorced when he was five years old, so he and they later decided to move definitely with their father. He attended St. Kennys National School primary school and, as a teen, Coláiste Mhuire, a Catholic boys school which are both located in or near Mullingar. Horan started playing guitar when his brother got one for Christmas but failed to play it, so Horan started to play with it and his aunt discovered his talent one day when she was in the car with Niall as he started singing. She originally thought the radio was on, as a teenager he performed at the Mullingar Arts Centre. He was also bagging a support slot with former X Factor contestant Lloyd Daniels at the famous Academy club in Dublin, in 2010, at sixteen years old, Niall auditioned for the seventh series of The X Factor in Dublin. He sang So Sick, and received mixed comments from the judges, Louis Walsh was in his favour, but Cheryl Cole and guest judge Katy Perry, felt he needed some time to grow. Simon voted to let him through, Cheryl said no, and Louis quickly added in his yes and she decided to vote yes, and Niall was put through to bootcamp. At bootcamp, Niall sang Champagne Supernova, but failed to qualify for the Boys category, Niall, along with Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik, formed One Direction. Styles came up with the name, which he thought would sound good when announcer Peter Dickson read their name out on the live shows. Subsequently, the group got together for two weeks to get to each other and to practice. For their qualifying song at judges houses and their first song as a group, Simon Cowell later commented that the performance convinced him that the group were confident, fun, like a gang of friends, and kind of fearless as well. Within the first four weeks of the shows, they were Cowells last act in the competition

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Ariana Grande
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Ariana Grande-Butera, known as Ariana Grande, is an American singer and actress. She began her career in the Broadway musical 13, before landing the role of Cat Valentine on the Nickelodeon television series Victorious in 2009, the show ended after four seasons, and Grande starred on the spinoff, Sam & Cat, which ended in 2014. She has also appeared in theatre, television and film roles. Grandes music career began with the soundtrack Music from Victorious and she signed a recording contract with Republic Records and released her debut studio album, Yours Truly in 2013, which debuted at No.1 on the US Billboard 200. The albums lead single, The Way, debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, Grandes second studio album, My Everything, debuted at No.1 in the US and charted in the top 10 in various other countries. In 2015, Grande promoted My Everything with her first world tour, The Honeymoon Tour, and guest-starred in the Fox comedy horror television series, Scream Queens. She also released the single Focus, which debuted at No.7 in the US, and a holiday EP album, Christmas & Chill, in 2016, she released her third studio album, Dangerous Woman, as well as several songs from the album. The title track debuted at No.10 on the Billboard Hot 100, the album debuted at No.2 on the Billboard 200. As of January 2017, Grandes music videos had been viewed a total of more than 7 billion times online, All three of her albums have been certified platinum or better by the RIAA. In 2016, Time named Grande one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual Time 100 list, Grande has a large following on social media, including the 2nd most followed Instagram account. In 2017, Grande is touring in North America and then Europe and her name was originally inspired by Princess Oriana from Felix the Cat. She has an older half-brother, Frankie Grande, who is an actor, dancer and producer, Grandes family moved from New York to Florida when her mother was pregnant with Grande, and her parents separated when she was around 8 or 9 years old. As a child, Grande performed with the Fort Lauderdale Childrens Theater, playing her first role as Annie, as well as performing in the musicals The Wizard of Oz and Beauty and she attended Pine Crest School and North Broward Preparatory School. By age 13, she became serious about pursuing a music career, who is going to buy a 14-year-olds R&B album. In 2008, Grande was cast in the role of cheerleader Charlotte in the musical 13 on Broadway. When she joined the musical, Grande left her school, North Broward Preparatory School. The school sent materials to her so she could study with tutors and she also sang various times at the New York City jazz club, Birdland. Grande auditioned for the Nickelodeon television show Victorious in New York along with 13 co-star Elizabeth Gillies in 2009, in this sitcom set in a performing arts high school, Grande was cast as Cat Valentine

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Dick Clark
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Richard Augustus Wagstaff Dick Clark Jr. was an American radio and television personality, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting American Bandstand from 1957 to 1987. He also hosted the game show Pyramid and Dick Clarks New Years Rockin Eve, Clark was also well known for his trademark sign-off, For now, Dick Clark — so long. As host of American Bandstand, Clark introduced rock & roll to many Americans, the show gave many new music artists their first exposure to national audiences, including Ike and Tina Turner, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Talking Heads and Simon & Garfunkel. Episodes he hosted were among the first in which blacks and whites performed on the same stage, singer Paul Anka claimed that Bandstand was responsible for creating a youth culture. Due to his youthful appearance and his fame as the host of American Bandstand. In his capacity as a businessman, Clark served as Chief Executive Officer of Dick Clark Productions and he also founded the American Bandstand Diner, a restaurant chain modeled after the Hard Rock Cafe. In 1973, he created and produced the annual American Music Awards show, Clark suffered a stroke in December 2004. With speech ability still impaired, Clark returned to his New Years Rockin Eve show a year later on December 31,2005, subsequently, he appeared at the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2006, and every New Years Rockin Eve show through the 2011–12 show. Clark died on April 18,2012 of an attack at the age of 82 following a medical procedure. Clark was born and raised in Mount Vernon, New York, to Richard Augustus Clark and his only sibling, older brother Bradley, was killed in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. Clark attended A. B. Davis High School in Mount Vernon, at age 10, Clark decided to pursue a career in radio. In pursuit of that goal, he attended Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, graduating in 1951 with a degree in advertising, while at Syracuse, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. In 1945, Clark began his working in the mailroom at WRUN, an AM radio station in Rome, New York. Almost immediately, he was asked to fill in for the vacationing weatherman, while attending Syracuse, Clark worked at WOLF-AM, then a country music station. After graduation, he returned to WRUN for a time where he went by the name Dick Clay. After that, Clark got a job at the television station WKTV in Utica and his first television-hosting job was on Cactus Dick and the Santa Fe Riders, a country-music program. He would later replace Robert Earle as a newscaster, Clark was principal in pro broadcasters operator of 1440 KPRO in Riverside, California, from 1962 to 1982. In the 1960s, he was owner of KGUD AM/FM in Santa Barbara, in 1952, Clark moved to Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where he took a job as a disc jockey at radio station WFIL, adopting the Dick Clark handle

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Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast

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Society Awards
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Society Awards was founded in 2007 by entrepreneur David Moritz, and is headquartered in New York City. Moritz is an attorney by training, and has founded two companies which include Viceroy Creative and Ambition Beverages. Society Award’s clients include televised entertainment programs, charitable organizations, Fortune 500 corporations, film festivals, the company has done projects for companies and brands ranging from MTV to YouTube, John Varvatos and Jeff Koons. In 2013, Society Awards designed the first ever trophy for The Voice and that same year, the company also manufactured a bottle stopper as part of limited edition packaging for Patrón in its collaboration with David Yurman. The Society Awards offices are located in Long Island City in the old Standard Motor Products building, the company occupies an 8,000 sq. ft. space, and does much of the trophy and award customizing on-site with specialized machinery. The company also has a 12,000 sq. ft. facility in the U. S. Midwest

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Nashville, Tennessee
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Nashville is the capital of the U. S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in the central part of the state. The city is a center for the music, healthcare, publishing, banking and transportation industries and it is known as a center of the country music industry, earning it the nickname Music City, U. S. A. Since 1963, Nashville has had a consolidated city-county government which includes six municipalities in a two-tier system. Nashville is governed by a mayor, vice-mayor, and 40-member Metropolitan Council, thirty-five of the members are elected from single-member districts, five are elected at-large. Reflecting the citys position in government, Nashville is home to the Tennessee Supreme Courts courthouse for Middle Tennessee. According to 2015 estimates from the U. S. Census Bureau, the balance population, which excludes semi-independent municipalities within Nashville, was 654,610. The 2015 population of the entire 13-county Nashville metropolitan area was 1,830,345, the 2015 population of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Columbia combined statistical area, a larger trade area, was 1,951,644. The town of Nashville was founded by James Robertson, John Donelson, and it was named for Francis Nash, the American Revolutionary War hero. Nashville quickly grew because of its location, accessibility as a port on the Cumberland River, a tributary of the Ohio River. By 1800, the city had 345 residents, including 136 African American slaves and 14 free blacks, in 1806, Nashville was incorporated as a city and became the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. In 1843, the city was named the permanent capital of the state of Tennessee, by 1860, when the first rumblings of secession began to be heard across the South, antebellum Nashville was a prosperous city. The citys significance as a port made it a desirable prize as a means of controlling important river. In February 1862, Nashville became the first state capital to fall to Union troops, the state was occupied by Union troops for the duration of the war. Within a few years after the Civil War, the Nashville chapter of the Ku Klux Klan was founded by Confederate veteran John W. Morton, meanwhile, the city had reclaimed its important shipping and trading position and developed a solid manufacturing base. The post–Civil War years of the late 19th century brought new prosperity to Nashville and these healthy economic times left the city with a legacy of grand classical-style buildings, which can still be seen around the downtown area. Circa 1950 the state approved a new city charter that provided for the election of city council members from single-member districts. This change was supported because at-large voting diluted the minority populations political power in the city and they could seldom gain a majority of the population to support a candidate of their choice

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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time

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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate

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Michael Jackson
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Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor, and philanthropist. Called the King of Pop, his contributions to music, dance, the eighth child of the Jackson family, Michael made his professional debut in 1964 with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member of the Jackson 5. He began his career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music, the popularity of these videos helped bring the television channel MTV to fame. Jacksons 1987 album Bad spawned the U. S and he continued to innovate with videos such as Black or White and Scream throughout the 1990s, and forged a reputation as a touring solo artist. Through stage and video performances, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and his distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous artists of various music genres. Thriller is the album of all time, with estimated sales of 65 million copies worldwide. Jacksons other albums, including Off the Wall, Bad, Dangerous and he is recognized as the Most Successful Entertainer of All Time by Guinness World Records. Jackson won hundreds of awards, making him the most awarded recording artist in the history of popular music. He became the first artist in history to have a top ten single in the Billboard Hot 100 in five different decades when Love Never Felt So Good reached number nine on May 21,2014. Jackson traveled the world attending events honoring his humanitarianism, and, in 2000, aspects of Jacksons personal life, including his changing appearance, personal relationships, and behavior, generated controversy. In 1993, he was accused of sexual abuse, but the civil case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted of child sexual abuse allegations. While preparing for his concert series, This Is It, Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication on June 25,2009. The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled his death a homicide, and his personal physician, Jacksons death triggered a global outpouring of grief, and a live broadcast of his public memorial service was viewed around the world. Forbes ranks Jackson as the dead celebrity with earnings of $825 million in 2016. Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29,1958 and his mother, Katherine Esther Scruse, was a devout Jehovahs Witness. She played clarinet and piano and once aspired to be a country-and-western performer, michaels father, Joseph Walter Joe Jackson, a former boxer, was a steelworker at U. S. Steel

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Donny Osmond
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Donald Clark Donny Osmond is an American singer, actor, radio personality, and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk and game show host, record producer, in the mid-1960s, he and four of his elder brothers gained fame as the Osmonds. Osmond went solo in the early 1970s, covering such hits as Go Away Little Girl, for over thirty-five years, he and younger sister Marie have gained fame as Donny & Marie, partly due to the success of their 1976–79 self-titled variety series, which aired on ABC. The duo also did a 1998–2000 talk show and have been headlining in Las Vegas since 2008, in 1989, Osmond had two big-selling recordings, the first of which, Soldier of Love, was initially credited to a mystery artist by some radio stations. Starting in July 1992, Osmond played Joseph in the Elgin Theatres Toronto production of Joseph, the musical then toured North America until 1998. Creator Andrew Lloyd Webber chose him for the 1999 film version, in 2009, Osmond won the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars. Osmond appeared as a guest judge on Strictly Come Dancing on week 3 of the 12th series, Osmond was born on December 9,1957 in Ogden, Utah, the seventh son of Olive May and George Virl Osmond. He is the brother of Alan, Jay, Jimmy, Merrill, Wayne, Marie, Tom, Alan, Jay, Merrill, Wayne, and Donny were members of the popular singing group The Osmonds. Osmond was raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah along with his siblings, Osmond has traced some of his family ancestry back to Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, his journey was documented in a BBC Wales program, Donny Osmond Coming Home. On the BBCs The One Show, a plaque was unveiled in the town to commemorate the ancestors of Donny Osmond, in his youth, Osmond held a ham radio license, KA7EVD. Andy Williams father, Jay Emerson Williams, saw the Osmond Brothers perform on a Disneyland televised special as a barbershop quartet, in short order, the group was invited to audition for The Andy Williams Show. In 1963, Donny Osmond made his debut on the show at the age of 5 singing You Are My Sunshine, the brothers continued to perform on the show throughout the 1960s along with a visit from their sister Marie. Osmond became a teen idol in the early 1970s as a solo singer, Osmond, Bobby Sherman, and David Cassidy were the biggest Cover Boy pop stars for Tiger Beat magazine in the early 1970s. His first solo hit was a cover of Roy Orbisons 1958 recording of Sweet and Innocent, in the 1980s, Osmond re-invented himself and abandoned the earlier television show image crafted to appeal to young viewers. They succeeded, returning Osmond to the US charts in 1989 with the Billboard Hot 100 No.2 song Soldier of Love, the campaign to market Soldier Of Love received considerable airplay with the singer being presented as a mystery artist before his identity was later revealed. Launching an extensive tour in support of the Eyes Dont Lie record, he enlisted Earth Wind & Fire and Kenny Loggins guitarist Dick Smith along with keyboardist Marc Jackson. Osmond was often reluctant to perform his earliest songs, in particular Go Away Little Girl, now he embraces his initial recording period with fondness, and recognizes that his many fans around the world are always excited and appreciative to hear his earliest chart successes. Osmond was the guest vocalist on Dweezil Zappas star-studded version of the Bee Gees Stayin Alive which appeared on Zappas 1991 album Confessions, the song also included guitar solos from Zakk Wylde, Steve Lukather, Warren DeMartini, Nuno Bettencourt, and Tim Pierce

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Rodney Allen Rippy
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Rodney Allen Rippy is an American former child actor. He appeared in TV commercials for the fast-food chain Jack in the Box in the early 1970s, as well as in numerous roles in television, in the advertisements, Rippy was seen trying to wrap his mouth around the super-sized Jumbo Jack hamburger. The tag line Its too big to eat, another spot showed Rippy giggling while singing the song Take Life a Little Easier, which was released as a single by Bell Records in the fall of 1973 in the wake of the commercials popularity. The 45 approached the Billboard magazine Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart in October 1973, at the age of five, Rippy became the youngest person ever to make any Billboard music chart. Rippy subsequently had guest roles in popular television shows, including The Six Million Dollar Man, Marcus Welby. Police Story, and The Odd Couple and he also appeared frequently on talk shows such as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Dinahs Place with Dinah Shore. Rippy also had a role on the CBS Saturday morning childrens show The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine. Rodney made his big debut in the Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles in 1974. He portrayed a young Sheriff Bart aboard his parents buckboard wagon after a brutal Sioux nation attack, when the Sioux chief, portrayed by Brooks, allows the pioneers passage, Rippy says his only line, Thank you. In a Peanuts newspaper comic strip dated July 3,1974, Rippy graduated from California State University, Dominguez Hills in 1995. Rippy is a partner in the production company, Bow Tie Productions. He worked at KABC-TV in Los Angeles, California, a resident of Carson, California, he has served as Master of Ceremonies for the Carson Relay For Life. He was at one time a director of marketing with Metro Networks. The Washington Post reported on April 26,2013, that Rippy was a candidate for mayor of Compton and he decided to bow out of the race after finishing 10th out of 12 candidates in the elections primary. Jack in the Box commercial on YouTube Rodney Allen Rippy at the Internet Movie Database

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Telemundo
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Telemundo is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal division NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. It is the second largest provider of Spanish content nationwide behind American competitor Univision, Telemundo is headquartered in the Miami suburb of Hialeah, Florida, and has 1,900 employees worldwide. The majority of Telemundos programs are filmed at a studio facility in Miami. The average hourly primetime drama costs $70K to produce. S, Ramos wanted to maintain a consistent branding for his media properties based around the mundo theme, and chose to brand his new television property as Telemundo. Rivero produced the first comedy/variety series for WKAQ-TV, La Taberna India, and La Farándula Corona on YouTube, during the 1970s and 1980s, WKAQ-TV, then branded as Telemundo Canal 2, had become a major producer of telenovelas. The station was known for its fingers logo – a bold number 2 with the silhouette of two upright fingers inside the number – and referred to itself as El canal de los dedos. On April 14,1983, Ramos sold WKAQ-TV to John Blair & Co, in 1984, the owners of WNJU in Linden, New Jersey and KSTS in San Jose, California formed NetSpan, the second Spanish-language television network in the continental United States. These stations joined KVEA in Los Angeles, run by its manager and part-owner Joe Wallach. In late 1986, Reliance also purchased WNJU, in 1987, Reliance Capital Group executives Saul Steinberg and Henry Silverman merged all these stations into the Telemundo Group. The new corporation quickly went public, and in 1987, Reliance decided to rebrand NetSpan as Telemundo, later that year, it purchased additional stations in San Francisco, Houston and San Antonio. Between 1988 and 1993, Telemundo acquired or affiliated with stations in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Washington. In May 1992, Telemundo underwent another management change, appointing former Univision president Joaquin Blaya – who resigned from that network after discovering in an FCC filing for A. The following year in 1993, Telemundo underwent a rebranding, introducing the signature framed T letter logo. The network also began to produce its own telenovelas, the first of which to premiere were Angélica, mi vida, Marielena, Guadalupe, Señora Tentación. International distributors soon approached the network for the rights to air these programs on television networks in other countries. In 1995, under the direction of executive president of programming Harry Abraham Castillo. Eastern time slot on certain weeknights to help bolster its late newscasts, after the sale received FCC approval on July 31,1998, Sony and Liberty formed a holding company that was operated as a 50/50 joint venture between both companies, Telemundo Communications Group. Among them were Angeles, a remake of Charlies Angels, Un Angel en la Casa, solo en America, a remake of One Day at a Time

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Helen Reddy
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Helen Maxine Lamond Reddy is an Australian singer, actress, and activist. In the 1970s, she enjoyed success, especially in the United States. Six made the Top 10 and three reached No,1, including her signature hit I Am Woman. She is often referred to as the Queen of 70s Pop, Reddy placed 25 songs on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart,15 made the Top 10 and eight reached No. In 1974, at the inaugural American Music Awards, she became the first artist to win the award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist and she was the first Australian to have three No.1 hits in the same year. In television, she was the first Australian to host her own weekly primetime variety show on an American network. Reddy retired from performance in 2002, returned to university in Australia and earned her degree. In 2011, after singing Breezin Along with the Breeze with her sister, Toni Lamond, for Tonis birthday and her song I Am Woman played a large role in popular culture and became an anthem for second-wave feminism. She came to be known as a feminist poster girl or a feminist icon, in 2011, Billboard named her the No.28 adult contemporary artist of all time. Helen Reddy was born into a well-known Australian show business family in Melbourne and her mother, Stella Campbell, was an actress, and her father, Maxwell David Max Reddy, was a writer, producer, and actor. Her half-sister, Toni Lamond, and her nephew, Tony Sheldon, are actor-singers and she has Irish, Scottish and English ancestry. Her great grandfather, Scotsman Thomas Lamond, was a mayor of Waterloo, New South Wales, whose patron was Hercules Robinson. Her maternal grandmother, Stella Lamond, sang and danced in small parts at the Majestic Theatre in Sydney, patsy Reddy, New Zealands Governor-General, is a distant cousin. Reddy was born during World War II, six weeks before the bombing of Pearl Harbor and her father was a sergeant in the Australian Army with a unit of entertainers, he served alongside one of his actor friends, Peter Finch. They were serving together in New Guinea at the time of Helens birth and her father returned to service during the Korean War. At age four, she joined her parents on the Australian vaudeville circuit, singing and dancing, she recalled, It was instilled in me, so between the ages of 12 and 17, I got rebellious and decided this was not for me. I was going to be a housewife and mother, despite possessing only $200 and a return ticket to Australia, she elected to remain in the United States with 3-year-old Traci and pursue a singing career. Reddy recalled her 1966 appearance at the Three Rivers Inn in Syracuse, Wald recalled that he and Reddy married three days after meeting and, along with daughter Traci, the couple took up residence at the Hotel Albert in Greenwich Village

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Roger Miller
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Roger Dean Miller, Sr. was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor, best known for his honky-tonk-influenced novelty songs. His most recognized tunes included the chart-topping country/pop hits King of the Road, Dang Me and he also wrote and performed several of the songs for the 1973 Disney animated film Robin Hood. Later in his life, he wrote the music and lyrics for the 1985 Tony-award winning Broadway musical Big River, Miller died from lung cancer in 1992, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame three years later. The Roger Miller Museum in his town of Erick, Oklahoma, is a tribute to Miller. Roger Miller was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the son of Jean. Jean Miller died from spinal meningitis when Roger was a year old, unable to support the family during the Great Depression, Laudene sent her three sons to live with three of Jeans brothers. Thus, Roger grew up on a farm outside Erick, Oklahoma with Elmer, as a boy, Miller did farm work, such as picking cotton and plowing. He would later say he was poor and that as late as 1951 the family did not own a telephone. He received his education at a one-room schoolhouse. Miller was a child, and would often daydream or compose songs. One of his earliest compositions went, Theres a picture on the wall and its the dearest of them all, Mother. Miller was a member of the National FFA Organization in high school and he listened to the Grand Ole Opry and Light Crust Doughboys on a Fort Worth station with his cousins husband, Sheb Wooley. Wooley taught Miller his first guitar chords and bought him a fiddle, Wooley, Hank Williams, and Bob Wills were the influences that led to Millers desire to be a singer-songwriter. He began to run away and perform in Oklahoma and Texas, at 17, he stole a guitar out of desperation to write songs, however, he turned himself in the next day. He chose to enlist in the United States Army to avoid jail and he later quipped, My education was Korea, Clash of 52. Near the end of his service, while stationed in Atlanta, Georgia, Miller played fiddle in the Circle A Wranglers. While Miller was stationed in South Carolina, an army sergeant whose brother was Kenneth C, Jethro Burns from the musical duo Homer and Jethro, persuaded him to head to Nashville after his discharge. On leaving the Army, Miller traveled to Nashville to begin his musical career and he met with Chet Atkins, who asked to hear him sing, loaning him a guitar since Miller did not own one

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Smokey Robinson
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William Smokey Robinson, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson was the founder and front man of the Motown vocal group the Miracles, Robinson led the group from its 1955 origins as the Five Chimes until 1972 when he announced a retirement from the group to focus on his role as Motowns vice president. However, Robinson returned to the industry as a solo artist the following year. Following the sale of Motown Records in 1988, Robinson left the company in 1990 and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Robinson was awarded the 2016 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for his contributions to popular music. Smokey Robinson was born to an African-American father and a mother of African-American and his uncle Claude gave him the nickname Smokey Joe when he was a child. He attended Northern High School, where he was above average academically, at one point, he and Diana Ross lived several houses from each other on Belmont, he once said he has known Ross since she was about eight. Robinson said his interest in music started after hearing the groups Nolan Strong & the Diablos and Billy Ward, Robinson later listed Barrett Strong, a Detroit native, as a strong vocal influence. In 1955, he formed the first lineup of the Five Chimes with childhood friend Ronald White and classmate Pete Moore, two years later, in 1957, they were renamed the Matadors and included Bobby Rogers. Another member, Emerson Rogers, was replaced by Bobbys cousin Claudette Rogers, the groups guitarist, Marv Tarplin, joined them sometime in 1958. The Matadors began touring Detroit venues around this time and they later changed their name to the Miracles. In August 1957, Robinson and the Miracles met songwriter Berry Gordy after an audition for Brunswick Records. At that time during the audition, Robinson had brought along with him a Big 10 notebook with 100 songs he wrote while in high school, Gordy was impressed with Robinsons vocals and even more impressed with Robinsons ambitious songwriting. With his help, the Miracles released their first single, Got a Job and it was the beginning of a long and successful collaboration. During this time, Robinson attended college and started classes in January 1959, Robinson dropped out after only two months following the Miracles release of their first record. Gordy formed Tamla Records which was reincorporated as Motown. The Miracles became one of the first acts signed to the label, in point of fact, they had actually been with Gordy since before the formation of Motown Records. In late 1960, the recorded their first hit single, Shop Around

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Glen Campbell
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Glen Travis Campbell is an American rock and country music singer, musician, songwriter, television host and actor. During his 50 years in business, Campbell has released more than 70 albums. He has sold 45 million records and accumulated 12 RIAA Gold albums, four Platinum albums, Campbell made history in 1967 by winning four Grammys total, in the country and pop categories. For Gentle on My Mind, he received two awards in country and western, By the Time I Get to Phoenix did the same in pop. Three of his early hits later won Grammy Hall of Fame Awards and he owns trophies for Male Vocalist of the Year from both the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music, and took the CMAs top award as 1968 Entertainer of the Year. John Wayne picked Campbell to play him in the film True Grit. Campbell sang the song which was nominated for an Academy Award. Glen Travis Campbell was born in Billstown, a community near Delight in Pike County, Arkansas, to John Wesley. He is the son of 12 children. His father was a sharecropper of Scottish ancestry and he started playing guitar as a youth and credits his uncle Boo for teaching him the guitar. In 1954, Campbell moved to Albuquerque to join his uncles band known as Dick Bills and he also appeared there on his uncles radio show and on K Circle B Time, the local childrens program on KOB television. In 1958, Campbell formed his own band, the Western Wranglers, in 1960, Campbell moved to Los Angeles to become a session musician. In October 1960 he joined The Champs, by January 1961, Campbell had found a daytime job at publishing company American Music, writing songs and recording demos. Because of these demos Campbell soon was in demand as a session musician and became part of a group of studio musicians later known as The Wrecking Crew. Campbell played on recordings by Bobby Darin, Ricky Nelson, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, The Monkees, Nancy Sinatra, Merle Haggard, Jan and Dean, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Phil Spector. In May 1961, he left The Champs and was signed by Crest Records. His first solo release, Turn Around, Look at Me, was a moderate success, Campbell also formed The Gee Cees with former bandmembers from The Champs, performing at The Crossbow Inn in Van Nuys. The Gee Cees, too, released a single on Crest, the instrumental Buzz Saw, in 1962, Campbell signed with Capitol Records

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
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Keenen Ivory Wayans, Sr. is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and a member of the Wayans Family of entertainers. He first came to prominence as the host and co-creator of the 1990–1994 Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color and he has produced, directed and/or written a large number of films, starting with Hollywood Shuffle, which he co-wrote, in 1987. A majority of films have included him and one or more of his brothers and sisters in the cast. One of these films, Scary Movie, which Wayans directed, was the movie ever directed by an African American until it was surpassed by Tim Storys Fantastic Four in 2005. From 1997 to 1998, he hosted the talk show The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show, most recently, he was a judge for the eighth season of Last Comic Standing. Wayans was born in New York City, son of Howell Stouten Wayans, a manager, and his wife Elvira Alethia. His father was a devout Jehovahs Witness and he grew up in Manhattans Fulton housing projects. Wayans attended Tuskegee University on an engineering scholarship and he entertained his friends at college with made-up stories about life in New York. One semester before graduation, he dropped out of school to focus on comedy, during his first set performing at The Improv in New York, Wayans met Robert Townsend, who helped him learn about the comedy business. Wayans moved to Los Angeles in 1980, where he worked as an actor and he had a regular role as a soldier on a television series named For Love and Honor. Townsend wrote, directed, and starred in the movie Hollywood Shuffle, Wayans was co-star, the movies success allowed him to raise the money to make Im Gonna Git You Sucka. Fox Broadcasting Company approached Wayans to offer him his own show, Wayans wanted to produce a variety show, similar to Saturday Night Live, with a cast of people of color that took chances with its content. Fox gave Wayans a lot of freedom with the show, although Fox executives were a bit concerned about the content prior to its television debut. Wayans and his brother Damon, Sr. created, wrote, and starred in the show, called In Living Color, an American sketch comedy television series that originally ran on the Fox Network from 1990 to 1994

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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze

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Jimmy Kimmel
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James Christian Jimmy Kimmel is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is the host and executive producer of Jimmy Kimmel Live, a late-night talk show that premiered on ABC in 2003. Kimmel hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012 and 2016, as well as the Academy Awards in February 2017 and he was best known as the co-host of Comedy Centrals The Man Show and Win Ben Steins Money. Kimmel has also produced shows as Crank Yankers, Sports Show with Norm Macdonald. Kimmel was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the neighborhood of Mill Basin as the eldest of three children of Joan, a homemaker, and James John Kimmel, an IBM executive. He is, and was raised, Catholic, and as a child served as an altar server, Kimmels mother is of Italian ancestry, two of his paternal great-great-grandparents were German emigrants, and his familys surname was Kümmel several generations back. The family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, when he was nine years old and he graduated from Ed W. Clark High School there, and then attended University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Arizona State University. He failed to obtain a university degree and he received an honorary degree from UNLV in 2013. Kimmels uncle, Frank Potenza, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live. as a regular from 2003 until his death in 2011. His cousin, Sal Iacono, performed Kimmels former co-hosting duties during the last season of Win Ben Steins Money and then became a writer, Kimmel began working in the radio industry while in high school, hosting a Sunday night interview show on UNLVs college station, KUNV. While attending Arizona State University, he became a popular caller to the KZZP-FM afternoon show hosted by radio personalities Mike Elliott and Kent Voss in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1989, Kimmel landed his first paying job alongside Voss as morning drive co-host of The Me and Him Show at KZOK-FM in Seattle, ten months later, Kimmel and Voss were fired by KZOK and were fired again a year later at WRBQ-FM in Tampa, Florida. Kimmel went on to host his own show at KCMJ in Palm Springs, California, after a morning stint at KRQQ in Tucson, Arizona, Kimmel landed at KROQ-FM in Los Angeles. He spent five years as Jimmy The Sports Guy for the Kevin, during this time he met and befriended a struggling comedian named Adam Carolla. Kimmel began his career as the comedic counterpart to Ben Stein on the game show Win Ben Steins Money. His quick wit and everyman personality were counterpoints to Steins monotonous vocal style, the combination earned the pair an Emmy award for Best Game Show Host. In 1999, during his time with Win Ben Steins Money, Kimmel co-hosted and co-produced, Kimmel left Win Ben Steins Money in 2001 and was replaced by comedian Nancy Pimental, who was eventually replaced by Kimmels cousin Sal Iacono. The Man Shows success allowed Kimmel, Carolla, and Kellison to create and produce, under the banner Jackhole Productions, Crank Yankers for Comedy Central and later The Andy Milonakis Show for MTV2

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Pitbull (rapper)
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Armando Christian Pérez, known by the stage name Pitbull or Mr. Worldwide, is an American rapper. His first recorded performance was on a solo track from Lil Jons 2002 album Kings of Crunk. In 2004, Pitbull released his debut album M. I. A. M. I and it included production producers Lil Jon and Jim Jonsin. Pitbull later released his second album El Mariel, in 2006 and his third, The Boatlift and his fourth album, Rebelution, included the hit single I Know You Want Me, which peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100. Pitbulls 2011 album Planet Pit, featured the single Give Me Everything and his 2013 track Timber from his Meltdown EP topped the charts in twenty nations, including the US and UK. He performed the song We Are One along with Jennifer Lopez and Claudia Leitte, Armando Christian Perez was born on January 15,1981 to Cuban expatriates in Miami, Florida. When he was 3, he could recite the works of Cubas national hero and poet, José Martí, growing up, he was influenced by the Miami bass genre of pop music and has cited Celia Cruz and Willy Chirino as sources of inspiration for his music. Pérezs parents separated when he was young, and he was raised by his mother, he spent time with a foster family in Roswell. He attended South Miami Senior High School before graduating from Miami Coral Park High School and he said he chose his stage name of Pitbull because the dogs bite to lock. The dog is too stupid to lose, and theyre outlawed in Dade County. Theyre basically everything that I am, after meeting Lil Jon in Miami, Pitbull was featured on Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz album Kings of Crunk in 2002. Pitbulls song Oye was featured on the soundtrack to the film 2 Fast 2 Furious the following year, in addition, Pitbull released several mixtapes, composed of freestyles and remixes of popular rap music. Campbell featured Pitbull in his single, Lollipop, together they focused on creating a more radio-friendly sound. Fernandez later told HitQuarters, At that time his music had a lot of verses and took a time to get into the hook. Fernandez introduced Pitbull to Lil Jon, hoping to secure the rapper a small guest intro spot on Lil Jons upcoming album Kings of Crunk. According to Fernandez, Jon took a liking to Pérez and offered him a track k on the album and this track helped raise the young rappers profile. In 2004, Pitbull released his debut album M. I. A. M. I, with the lead single being Culo produced by Lil Jon and the Diaz Brothers. It peaked at No.32 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, other singles included Dammit Man, Back Up, Toma, and Thats Nasty

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Jennifer Lopez
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Jennifer Lynn Lopez, also known as JLo, is an American singer, actress, dancer, fashion designer, author, and producer. Lopez gained her first high-profile job as a Fly Girl dancer on In Living Color in 1991 and she received her first leading role in the Selena biopic of the same name in 1997, a portrayal that earned her a Golden Globe nomination. For her role in Out of Sight the following year, Lopez became the first Latina actress to earn over US$1 million for a film. She ventured into the industry in 1999 with her debut studio album On the 6. With the simultaneous release of her studio album J. Lo and her film The Wedding Planner in 2001, Lopez became the first woman to have a number one album. Her 2002 remix album, J to tha L–O, the Remixes, became the first in history to debut at number one on the U. S. Billboard 200. Following her second divorce, Lopez had a relationship with Ben Affleck. Then, while also overshadowing the release of Gigli, a critical and commercial failure and she subsequently married longtime friend Marc Anthony, and rebounded with the box office successes Shall We Dance. and Monster-in-Law. Her fifth studio album, Como Ama una Mujer, received the highest first-week sales for a debut Spanish album in the United States, in 2016, she began starring as Harlee Santos in the crime drama series Shades of Blue. Time listed her as one of the 25 most influential Hispanic Americans, for her contributions to the arts, Lopez has received a landmark star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Billboard Icon Award, among other honors. Beyond entertainment, she enjoys a successful business career consisting of various clothing lines, accessories, fragrances, a company. Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born on July 24,1969, in the Castle Hill neighborhood of The Bronx, New York, to Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe Rodríguez and she has an older sister, Leslie, and a younger sister, Lynda, a journalist. David worked the night shift at the Guardian Insurance Company before becoming a technician at the firm. When Lopez was born, the family was living in a small apartment, a few years later, her parents had saved up enough money to be able to purchase a two-story house, which was considered a big deal for the relatively poor family. At the age of five, Lopez began taking singing and dancing lessons and she toured New York with her school when she was seven years old. Her parents stressed the importance of work ethic and being able to speak English and they encouraged their three daughters to put on performances at home—singing and dancing in front of each other and their friends so that they would stay out of trouble. Lopez spent her academic career in Catholic schools, finishing at Preston High School. In school, Lopez did gymnastics, ran track on a national level and she excelled athletically rather than academically, competing in national track championships

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Gigi Hadid
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Gigi Hadid is an American fashion model. She was signed to IMG Models in 2013, in November 2014, Hadid made her debut in the Top 50 Models ranking at Models. com. In 2016, she was named International Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council, Gigi Hadid was born and raised in Los Angeles to real estate developer Mohamed Hadid and former model Yolanda Hadid. Her mother is a Dutch-born American, and her father is Palestinian-American, through her father she descends from Daher Al Omer, Prince of Nazareth and the Sheikh of Galilee. Hadid has two siblings, a sister, Bella, and a brother, Anwar, both of whom are also models. She has two older, paternal half-sisters, Marielle and Alana, following her parents divorce, her mother married music producer David Foster, through whom she has five stepsisters. In 2013, Hadid graduated from Malibu High School, where she was captain of the varsity team as well as a competitive horseback rider. Following high school, she moved to New York City to focus on her studies, Hadid studied criminal psychology at The New School beginning in the fall 2013 but suspended her studies to focus on her modelling career. Hadids modelling career began when she was two years old after being discovered by Paul Marciano, of Guess clothing and she started modelling with Baby Guess before stopping to concentrate on school. Hadid eventually returned to modeling, in 2011 and she resumed working with Marciano, and was named the face of a Guess campaign in 2012. Hadid has shot three campaigns with Guess as an adult, after moving to New York City and signing to IMG Models in 2013, Hadid made her New York Fashion Week debut in February 2014 walking for Desiguals show. In the same month she got her break in high fashion on the cover of CR Fashion Book magazine, on July 15,2014, she starred alongside actor and model Patrick Schwarzenegger in fashion designer Tom Fords Eyewear autumn/winter campaign. She co-hosted the Daily Front Rows Fashion Media Awards event that was held in New York City on September 5,2014, Hadid has also starred in campaigns for Tom Ford F/W2014, Tom Ford Velvet Orchard Fragrance and Tom Ford Beauty 2014. She was on the cover of Galore magazine and Carine Roitfelds CR Fashion Book in 2014, Hadid appeared in the 2015 Pirelli calendar. In January 2015, she was named the Daily Front Rows Model of the Year, in February 2015, Hadid became the first ever model to cover the CR Fashion Book twice. By May 2015, Hadid had walked for designers including, Marc Jacobs, Chanel, Michael Kors, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Max Mara. Hadids sister Bella is also a model, and the two sisters have been featured together in some modelling appearances including a shoot for V magazine in June 2015. In December 2015, she made her first appearance in the Victorias Secret Fashion Show, Hadid has appeared on magazine covers including Vogue, Schön

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Jay Pharoah
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Jared Antonio Farrow, better known by his stage name Jay Pharoah, is an American actor, stand-up comedian, impressionist, rapper, and voice actor. He joined the cast of NBCs Saturday Night Live in 2010, in 2015, he was ranked the 55th greatest Saturday Night Live cast member by Rolling Stone magazine. Pharoah was born in Chesapeake, Virginia and he and his twin brother were premature, and his brother died at birth. In 2005, Pharoah graduated from Indian River High School in Chesapeake, one of his characters, Principal Daniel Frye, is heavily influenced by IRHSs former principal, James Frye. Pharoah went on to business at Tidewater Community College and Virginia Commonwealth University. Pharoah has been performing comedy in community theaters and at comedy clubs in Virginia since he was 15. He at one point toured with Corey Holcomb and Charlie Murphy. He became known for his celebrity impressions, including Barack Obama, Will Smith, Jay-Z,50 Cent, Eddie Murphy, Charlie Murphy, Chris Rock, Kanye West, Stephen A. Smith. Pharoah can also be seen on an episode of MTVs Yo Momma, Pharoah became an internet phenomenon when his impersonation of Barack Obama became widely seen on YouTube. In 2010, Pharoah was hired by Saturday Night Live as a player for the shows 36th season. He debuted his SNL impersonation of Barack Obama in the 38th season premiere on September 15,2012, Rolling Stone magazine described him as the Jimmy Fallon of 2 Chainz impressions. Pharoah appeared in the independent film Lola Versus, released by Fox Searchlight Pictures in June 2012, in 2016, he appeared in a commercial for Old Navy, alongside fellow SNL cast members Nasim Pedrad and Cecily Strong. On August 8,2016, it was announced Pharaoh would be exiting the show ahead of its 42nd season, Pharoah hosted the AMAs 2016 with Gigi Hadid. Pharoah has been working on his first album with record producer Myles William, Saturday Night Live Lola Versus Ride Along Balls Out Top Five White Famous Get a Job Sing Call of Duty, Infinite Warfare Jay Pharoah at the Internet Movie Database

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Tracee Ellis Ross
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Tracee Ellis Ross is an American actress, model, comedian, producer and television host. From 2000 to 2008, she played the role as Joan Clayton on the UPN/CW comedy series Girlfriends. In 2014, Ross began starring as Dr. Rainbow Johnson in the ABC comedy series Black-ish, the role brought her three more NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. She has received nominations for a Critics Choice Television Award and Primetime Emmy Award and, in 2017, born Tracee Joy Silberstein in Los Angeles, California, she is the daughter of Motown singer/actress Diana Ross and music business manager Robert Ellis Silberstein. Actor and musician Evan Ross is her half-brother and her father is Jewish-American and her mother is African-American. Ross attended Riverdale Country School in the Bronx and the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland and she was a model in her teens. She attended Brown University, where she appeared in plays, and she later worked in the fashion industry, as a model and contributing fashion editor to Mirabella and New York magazines. Ross made her big debut in 1996, playing a Jewish/African-American woman in the independent feature film Far Harbor. The following year, she debuted as host of The Dish, in 1998, she starred as a former high school track star who remained silent about having been abused at the hands of a coach, in the NBC made-for-TV movie Race Against Fear, A Moment of Truth. Her next role was an independent feature film Sue, in 2000, she landed her first major studio role in Diane Keatons Hanging Up. The same year, she broke into comedy as a performer in the MTV series The Lyricist Lounge Show, a hip-hop variety series mixing music, dramatic sketches. The series centered on four young African-American women, and their male best friend, in 2007, Ross won an NAACP Image Award in the category, Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on the series. She won a second Image Award for the role in 2009, in 2007, Ross starred with her brother Evan Ross and Queen Latifah in the HBO movie Life Support, That same year, she appeared in the Tyler Perry theatrical movie, Daddys Little Girls. She appeared in the 2009 film Labor Pains, in 2010, she appeared in an episode of Private Practice as a pregnant doctor. In 2011, Ross appeared in four episodes of CSI as the wife of Laurence Fishburnes character. Ross starred in the sitcom, Reed Between the Lines, with Malcolm-Jamal Warner airing on BET starting in October 2011 and she won a third NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series in 2012 for her performance in the series. In August 2012, it was announced that Ross would not return for Season Two, in 2011, she appeared in the Lifetime film Five directed by Alicia Keys. The performance in film earned her nominations for a NAACP Image Award, in 2012, Ross starred in the NBC drama pilot Bad Girls

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Lock screen
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A lock screen is a user interface element used by various operating systems. Operating systems that run on smartphones and tablets use a gesture-based lock-screen. Mobile phones manufactured by Neonode were unlocked by swiping to the right on its touchscreen, Apples iOS, used by the iPhone and iPad lines, utilizes a similar unlock mechanism using an on-screen slider widget to the right. Beginning on iOS5, sliding in the other direction sends the user directly to the camera app, on iOS7, the slider widget was removed as part of a larger overhaul of the iOS interface, and users can now swipe from any point of the screen. The lock screen displays a clock, notifications, and provides audio playback controls. At first, Android did not use a lock screen. On Android 2.1, the dial was replaced by two tabs on either end of the screen. Android 3.0 introduced a new design, a ball with an icon is dragged to the outside of a circular area. On 4.0, the option to unlock straight to the camera is provided, Android 4.2 makes additional changes to the lock screen, allowing users to add widgets to pages accessible on the lock screen by swiping from the left edge of the screen. The camera is accessed in a manner by swiping from the right edge of the screen. Android also allows devices to be locked using a password, a pattern on a grid of 9 circles, or with facial recognition. Windows NT has offered the ability for users to lock their computers by displaying a login window, since Windows XP, the lock function has also been bound to the keyboard shortcut ⊞ Win+L. The screen can be dragged upwards with a mouse or touchscreen to unlock the device, screen locking functionality is also built into screensaver systems on some Unix-like operating systems, such as XScreenSaver and gnome-screensaver. Apple holds several patents related to the lock screen used by its iOS devices. Patent 7,657,849 in 2010, and U. S, patent 8,046,721 in 2011, describing a system that involves continuously dragging an image to a certain point to unlock the device. The British court specifically ruled that Apples lock screen was an improvement over that of the Neonode N1 due to its additional visual feedback through an on-screen slider graphic

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Wallpaper (computing)
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A wallpaper or background is a digital image used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, mobile communications device or other electronic device. On a computer it is usually for the desktop, while on a mobile phone it is usually the background for the home or idle screen, though most devices come with a default picture, users can usually change it to custom files of their choosing. Wallpaper was the used in Microsoft Windows before Windows Vista. Subsequently, a number of programs were released that added support for additional image formats and other features, such as the xpmroot program. The original Macintosh operating system allowed a selection of 8×8-pixel binary-image tiled patterns. MacOS8 in 1997 was the first Macintosh version to include support for using arbitrary images as desktop pictures. Windows 3.0 in 1990 was the first version of Microsoft Windows to come with support for wallpaper customization, although Windows 3.0 only came with 7 small patterns, the user could supply other images in the BMP file format with up to 8-bit color. To provide similar wallpaper features otherwise lacking in those systems, a wallpaper feature was added in a beta release of OS/22.0 in 1991. Due to the use of personal computers, some wallpapers have become immensely recognizable. Bliss, the wallpaper of Microsoft Windows XP has become the most viewed photograph of the 2000s. A live wallpaper is a type of application that works on a device using the Android operating system. Similar functionality could be found in the Active Desktop feature of Windows 98, there is also third party software that provides this feature for various operating systems. A mobile wallpaper is a computer wallpaper sized to fit a mobile device such as a mobile phone, the height is often greater than or equal to the width. Wallpapers can typically be downloaded at no cost from various websites for modern phones, modern smartphones allow users to use photos from the web, or photographs captured with a phones camera can be set as a wallpaper. Additionally, OS X has the ability to run a screen saver on the desktop, in this configuration. However, OS X does not come with an interface to do this. Similarly, Windows can also be set to cycle through pictures from a folder at regular intervals and it is supported on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10. If fully animated backgrounds are wanted, third party software would need to be installed, GNOME2 also can be set to cycle through pictures from a folder at regular intervals, similarly to Windows 7

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Samsung Galaxy
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Samsung Galaxy is a series of mobile computing devices designed, manufactured and marketed by Samsung Electronics. Samsung Galaxy devices have used the Android operating system produced by Google. This tradition was broken at CES2016 with the announcement of the first Galaxy-branded Windows 10 device, several older Galaxy phones are vulnerable to a specially crafted SMS that will produce a never-ending reboot loop. Since September 2013, following the launch of Samsung Galaxy Note 3, previously, from 2009 until September 2013, they started with GT-xxxx. According to the Samsung Newsroom, this arrangement is not just an audio file stored in the phone. Rather, it is a sound of Samsung Galaxy devices. While the basic composition of the tune has not changed since its inception. Moreover, the song has been covered by popular artists who have released their own arrangements and remixes of the song, such as Quincy Jones, Icona Pop. Notes Considered devices of screen size 5.3 inches or more and it includes the Core and the Grand, which are separate lines, until the release of the Grand Prime, the successor to the Core Prime. The line was replaced by, mainly the J series, both of these smartphones feature a metal-clad design and run on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Both of the smartphones will be available in 32GB and 64GB variants, the Samsung Galaxy C5 32GB and 64GB variants are priced at 2, 199¥ and 2, 399¥ respectively. On the other hand, the Samsung Galaxy C7 is priced at ¥2,200, both these phones are expected to arrive in India as both of them support Indian 4G LTE bands. In mid 2016, Samsung Galaxy C5 and C7 launched in Hong Kong and Macau

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Mobile phone
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A mobile phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area. The radio frequency link establishes a connection to the systems of a mobile phone operator. Most modern mobile telephone services use a network architecture, and, therefore. Mobile phones which offer these and more general computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones, the first handheld mobile phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing c.4.4 lbs. In 1983, the DynaTAC 8000x was the first commercially available mobile phone. From 1983 to 2014, worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew to seven billion, penetrating 100% of the global population. In first quarter of 2016, the top smartphone manufacturers were Samsung, Apple, a handheld mobile radio telephone service was envisioned in the early stages of radio engineering. In 1917, Finnish inventor Eric Tigerstedt filed a patent for a pocket-size folding telephone with a thin carbon microphone. Early predecessors of cellular phones included analog radio communications from ships, the race to create truly portable telephone devices began after World War II, with developments taking place in many countries. These 0G systems were not cellular, supported few simultaneous calls, the first handheld mobile phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing c.4.4 lbs. The first commercial automated cellular network was launched in Japan by Nippon Telegraph and this was followed in 1981 by the simultaneous launch of the Nordic Mobile Telephone system in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Several other countries followed in the early to mid-1980s. These first-generation systems could support far more simultaneous calls but still used analog cellular technology, in 1983, the DynaTAC 8000x was the first commercially available handheld mobile phone. In 1991, the digital cellular technology was launched in Finland by Radiolinja on the GSM standard. This sparked competition in the sector as the new operators challenged the incumbent 1G network operators, ten years later, in 2001, the third generation was launched in Japan by NTT DoCoMo on the WCDMA standard. This was followed by 3. 5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G enhancements based on the high-speed packet access family, allowing UMTS networks to have data transfer speeds. By 2009, it had become clear that, at point, 3G networks would be overwhelmed by the growth of bandwidth-intensive applications. Consequently, the industry began looking to data-optimized fourth-generation technologies, with the promise of speed improvements up to ten-fold over existing 3G technologies

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Mobile phone accessories
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Mobile phone accessories include any hardware or software that is not integral to the operation of a mobile phone as designed by the manufacturer. Cases, which are designed to attach to, support, or otherwise hold a phone, are popular accessories for many phones. Case measures are based on the display inches, heavy duty cases are designed to protect from drops and scratches. A Standing case improves user experience, being recommended for multimedia, videos. Folio case is a case and stand, and may include a keyboard. Skins and design covers can serve for protection and personalization and these are the result of the relatively naked designs produced by manufacturers such as Apple, where the metal and glass components of the device are exposed and vulnerable to damage. They are distinct from holsters, in allowing use of the device while in the case and they are made of hard plastic, rubber, or in the newer market adhesive-backed vinyl pieces. Vinyl skins can be ordered on many websites and come pre-cut to fit your cell phone or another electronic device, vinyl material may be calendared or cast, with the latter being more expensive. Calendered vinyl is expected to only be used for short-mid duration while cast vinyl is used on a long term basis. Calendered vinyl also tends to shrink in the heat and can be shaped into any form, cast vinyl avoids most problems, but costs up to 250% more. 3M has manufactured a cast vinyl product that they call Controltac and this vinyl cover maintains a more glossy look and provides an air release channel that prevents bubbles during placement. The more popular is the cast vinyl because of the range of designs, customized phone cases use custom printing. Some phones have a replaceable cover, a release button on the cover lets it pop off to be replaced with the new cell cover. Phones that lack a replaceable cover can accept a slip on or snap on cover and these come in leather, vinyl, silicone, or hard plastic. Functional cases can integrate an external battery, a USB, Bluetooth, WiFi keyboard, antilost keychain can easily locate the mobile phone through the GPS and Bluetooth low energy features of the smartphone. Once the user is out of range, both phone and companion will alert him / her and it also can be used to take selfies. Some smartphones feature SD card slots and these, in combination with a compatible SD card, can be used to transfer files from one device to another, or simply to increase the storage capacity of the phone. Wi-Fi SDs are Wi-Fi communication devices on a special SD card inserted into the SD card slot and they can move pictures to a local computer or an online photo sharing service

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Billboard Music Award
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The Billboard Music Award is an honor given by Billboard, a publication and music popularity chart covering the music business. The Billboard Music Awards show had been held annually since 1989 in December until it went dormant in 2006, the awards returned in 2011 and is held annually in May. The 2016 Billboard Music Awards aired live on May 22 on ABC, Awards were given for the top album/artist/single in different genres. From 1989 to 2006, the show had the same categories, in 2011, for the first time, all of the awards were renamed to Top. The of the portion of each category title no longer exists. Other awards, including both crossover awards were discontinued, since 2011, the nominees have had five nominees. The general categories are Top Artist, Top Billboard 200 Album, Top Hot 100 Song and these categories highlighted in each award and other categories are divided by genre. 2011, Neil Diamond 2012, Stevie Wonder 2013, Prince 2014, Jennifer Lopez 2016, Celine Dion Recognizes music singers, plans for a new version of the awards in 2008 fell through, and the BMAs were not held until 2011. On February 17,2011, Billboard announced that it would bring the BMAs back to television, moving from its home on Fox to its new network, ABC. A new award statuette was created by New York firm Society Awards, dick Clark Productions produces the ceremony, giving it control of both of ABCs non-country music awards specials, including the November American Music Awards. Billboard Touring Awards Billboard Japan Music Awards Billboard Latin Music Awards Billboard Women in Music Official website

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Earl Carroll Theatre
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Earl Carroll Theatre was the name of two important theaters owned by Broadway impresario and showman Earl Carroll. One was located in the Broadway Theater District in New York City, the first was the Broadway theatre venture at 753 Seventh Avenue & West 50th Street in New York City. Designed by architect George Keister, it opened in 1922 and was successful for a number of years until it was demolished. It reopened in August 1931 with Carrolls billing that it was the largest legitimate theater in the world, however, the facilitys operating costs proved astronomical and it went into foreclosure in early 1932 after which it was acquired by producer Florenz Ziegfeld who renamed it the Casino Theatre. The Casino was the site of a successful revival of Ziegfelds production of Show Boat in 1932. However, Ziegfeld too went bankrupt only a time later. After being acquired by Billy Rose and operating for a time as a night club, the building was converted to retail space in 1940 and eventually became a Woolworths Department Store. Earl Carroll built his second theater at 6230 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. It opened on December 26,1938, as he had done at the New York theater, over the entrance Carroll emblazoned the words Through these portals pass the most beautiful girls in the world. The sign survived several changes of ownership and venue name but was removed during major decorative overhauling in 1968. A re-creation made from photos is today on display at Universal CityWalk, at Universal City, the theater was sold following the 1948 deaths of Earl Carroll and Beryl Wallace in the crash of United Airlines Flight 624. It continued to operate but by the early 1950s it was falling on hard times, in 1953, Las Vegas showman Frank Sennes reopened the theater as a nightclub under the name Moulin Rouge. The popular TV contest show Queen for a Day was broadcast from the Moulin Rouge during part of the shows 1956–1964 run, in late 1965 it became the Hullabaloo, a minors-welcome rock and roll club, capitalizing on the popularity of the television variety show Hullabaloo. For several months in 1968 it was the Kaleidoscope and featured many top West Coast rock acts, with an emphasis on local bands such as The Doors. Later in 1968, the venue was redecorated in the art style, renamed the Aquarius Theater. In 1983, the Pick-Vanoff Company purchased the property and converted it into a state-of-the-art television theater that for nine years was the site of Star Search. The Pick-Vanoff Company also owned Sunset-Gower Studios, formerly the home of Columbia Pictures, for many years, it was used for the annual Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon. In the fall of 1993, the theater was the venue for Fox Networks The Chevy Chase Show under the name The Chevy Chase Theater, the talk show was a disaster and was cancelled after five weeks, the theater reverted to its previous name soon after

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Sly Stone
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In 1993, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the group. The Stewart family was a deeply religious middle-class household from Denton, born March 15,1943, before the family had moved from Denton, Texas to Vallejo, California in the North Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, Sylvester was the second of the familys five children. As part of the doctrines of the Church of God in Christ, to which the Stewart family belonged, the eldest sister, Loretta, was the only Stewart child not to pursue a musical career. All of the other Stewart children would later adopt the surname Stone, Sylvester was identified as a musical prodigy. By the time he was seven, Sylvester had already become proficient on the keyboards, and by the age of eleven, he had mastered the guitar, bass, and drums as well. While still in school, Sylvester had settled primarily on the guitar. One of these was the Viscaynes, a group in which Sylvester. The fact that the group was integrated made the Viscaynes hip in the eyes of their audiences, and would later inspire Sylvesters idea of the multicultural Family Stone. The Viscaynes released a few singles, including Yellow Moon and Stop What You Are, during the same period. With his brother, Fred, he formed several short-lived groups, the nickname Sly was a common one for Sylvester throughout his years in grade school. Early on, a classmate misspelled his name Slyvester, and ever since, adopting the stage name Sly Stone, he then formed The Stoners in 1966 which included Cynthia Robinson on trumpet. With her he started his band, Sly and the Family Stone. Stone, Robinson, and Fred Stewart were joined by Larry Graham, Greg Errico, working around the Bay Area in 1967, this multiracial band made a strong impression. On the first recordings Little Sisters Vet Stone, Mary McCreary, in 1968 sister Rosie Stone joined the band. Stone was influential in guiding KSOL-AM into soul music and started calling the station K-SOUL, the second was a popular soul music station, at 107.7 FM. The current KSOL has a different format and is unrelated to the two stations. Along with James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone were pioneers of late 1960s and their fusion of R&B rhythms, infectious melodies, and psychedelia created a new pop/soul/rock hybrid the impact of which has proven lasting and widespread. Motown producer Norman Whitfield, for example, patterned the labels forays into harder-driving, the pioneering precedent of Stones racial, sexual, and stylistic mix, had a major influence in the 1980s on artists such as Prince and Rick James

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Roy Clark
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Roy Linwood Clark is an American country music musician and performer. He is best known for hosting Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, Roy Clark has been an important and influential figure in country music, both as a performer and helping to popularize the genre. Although he has had hit songs as a pop vocalist, his instrumental skill has had an effect on generations of bluegrass. He has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1987, Clark was born in Meherrin, Virginia and lived as a teenager in southeast Washington, D. C. where his father worked at the Washington Navy Yard. At 14, Clark began playing banjo, guitar, and mandolin and he was simultaneously pursuing a sporting career, first as a baseball player and then as a boxer, before dedicating himself solely to music. At 17, he had his first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry, at the age of 23, Clark obtained his pilots license and then bought a 1953 Piper Tri-Pacer, which he flew for many years. This plane was raffled off on December 17,2012, to benefit the charity Wings of Hope and he has owned other planes, including a Mitsubishi MU-2, Stearman PT-17 and Mitsubishi MU-300 Diamond 1A bizjet. By 1955, he was a regular on Jimmy Deans Washington, Dean, who valued punctuality among musicians in his band, the Texas Wildcats, fired Clark for habitual tardiness, telling him, Youre the most talented person Ive ever fired. Clark married Barbara Joyce Rupard on August 31,1957, in 1960, Clark went out to Las Vegas, where he worked as a guitarist in a band led by former West Coast Western Swing bandleader-comedian Hank Penny. During the very early 1960s, he was prominent in the backing band for Wanda Jackson—known as the Party Timers—during the latter part of her rockabilly period. When Dean was tapped to host The Tonight Show in the early 1960s, he asked Clark to appear, subsequently, Clark appeared on The Beverly Hillbillies as a recurring character. Once, on an episode of the Sunday evening Jackie Gleason Show dedicated to country music, later, he appeared on an episode of The Odd Couple wherein he played Malagueña. In 1963, Clark signed to Capitol Records and had three top ten hits and he switched to Dot Records and again scored hits. He later recorded for ABC Records, which had acquired Dot, and MCA Records, in the mid 60s, he co-hosted, along with Buck Owens, a weekday daytime country variety series for NBC entitled Swingin Country, which was cancelled after two seasons. In 1969, Clark and Buck Owens were the hosts of Hee Haw, the show was dropped by CBS Television in 1971 but continued to run in syndication for twenty-one more years. During its tenure, Clark was a member of the Million Dollar Band, many of the celebrities who play in Branson first performed at the Roy Clark Celebrity Theatre. Clark frequently played in Branson during the 1980s and 1990s, in addition to his musical skill, Clark has often displayed his talents as a comedian and actor. During his years on Hee Haw, Clark entertained with comedy sketches

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Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
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Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is a multi-purpose convention center at 1855 Main Street in Santa Monica, California, owned by the City of Santa Monica. It was built in 1958 and designed by Welton Becket, the building was made of reinforced concrete and combined elements of a theater, concert hall, and trade show and convention auditorium. Parabolic pylons supported the exterior grand cantilevered canopy fronting a glass wall and brise soleil. For trade shows, the Civic Auditorium features 11,775 sq ft, while the stage adds 4,485 sq ft more space, the East Wing meeting room adds an additional 4,200 sq ft, while the main lobby features 6,708 sq ft. The main hall of the Civic is adaptable for not only trade shows, as a concert venue it can seat 3,000, as a banquet hall 720 in tables, and as a sports arena it can seat up to 2,500. The main floor of the auditorium can thus be raised or lowered to create a floor for theatre seating or a level floor for exhibits. The parcel includes the auditorium and surrounding land bounded on the north by the county building, on the west by Main Street, on the east by 4th Street, the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium opened in the summer of 1958. At that time, it was the second-largest auditorium in the Los Angeles area, on 28th and 29th October,1964, the auditorium was host to the T. A. M. I. Show, a concert featuring James Brown and The Rolling Stones. A home of the Academy Awards from 1961-1967, the auditorium remains home to the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, pink Floyd performed there on 1st May,1970. George Carlins album Class Clown was recorded at the auditorium on May 27,1972, Carlin first performed his infamous monologue Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television at the shows finale. On July 21,1972, Carlin was arrested and charged with violating obscenity laws after performing the routine at Summerfest, the Eagles performed three consecutive shows during The Long Run Tour on July 27–29,1980. The show was recorded and mostly featured on their live album, on April 9,1982, Weird Al Yankovic made his first major appearance at the auditorium, when his band opened for Missing Persons. It was not an experience, I got pelted for 45 minutes, he later said. By the 2000s, the Civic Auditorium was operating at a deficit of as much as $2 million. The City of Santa Monica began to plan for a $51. 9-million renovation using redevelopment funds and that effort was suspended after Governor Jerry Brown dissolved community redevelopment agencies. Per the Santa Monica Mirror newspaper, the auditorium is expected to close in July 2013 for at least five years and it needs at least $23 million in seismic and accessibly upgrades. A complete renovation would exceed $50 million, from an economic perspective, it would be cheaper to replace it, but many consider it a Landmark worth preserving

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Lou Rawls
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Louis Allen Lou Rawls was an American recording artist, voice actor, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his ability, Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had the classiest singing. Rawls released more than 60 albums, sold more than 40 million records and he worked as a television, motion picture, and voice actor. He was also a three-time Grammy-winner, all for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, Rawls was born in Chicago on December 1,1933, and raised by his grandmother in the Ida B. Wells projects on the citys South Side, after graduating from Chicagos Dunbar Vocational High School, he sang briefly with Cooke in the Teenage Kings of Harmony, a local gospel group, and then with the Holy Wonders. In 1951, Rawls replaced Cooke in the Highway QCs after Cooke departed to join The Soul Stirrers in Los Angeles, Rawls was soon recruited by the Chosen Gospel Singers and moved to Los Angeles, where he subsequently joined the Pilgrim Travelers. In 1955, Rawls enlisted in the United States Army as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division and he left the All-Americans three years later as a sergeant and rejoined the Pilgrim Travelers. In 1958, while touring the South with the Travelers and Sam Cooke, Rawls was pronounced dead before arriving at the hospital, where he stayed in a coma for five and a half days. It took him months to regain his memory, and a year to fully recuperate, Rawls considered the event to be life-changing. Alongside Dick Clark as master of ceremonies, Rawls was recovered enough by 1959 to be able to perform at the Hollywood Bowl. His first 2 single releases were Love, Love, Love and Walkin on Herb Alperts Shar-Dee label in 1959-60, then 2 more in 1960-61 on Candix with In My Little Black Book and 80 Ways. He was signed to Capitol Records in 1962, the year he sang the soulful background vocals on the Sam Cooke recording of Bring It On Home to Me and Thats Where Its At. Rawls himself charted with a cover of Bring It On Home to Me in 1970, Rawls first Capitol solo release was Stormy Monday, a jazz album with Les McCann in 1962. Went gold, Rawls would not have a hit until he made a proper soul album, appropriately named Soulin. The album contained his first R&B #1 single, Love Is a Hurtin Thing, in 1967 Rawls won his first Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance, for the single Dead End Street. In 1967, Rawls also performed at the first evening of the Monterey International Pop Music Festival, in 1969, the singer was co-host of NBCs summer replacement series for the Dean Martin Show along with Martins daughter, singer Gail Martin. After leaving Capitol in 1971, Rawls joined MGM, at which juncture he released his Grammy-winning single Natural Man written for him by comedian Sandy Baron and he had a brief stint with Bell Records in 1974, where he recorded a cover of Hall & Oates Shes Gone. In 1976, Rawls signed with Philadelphia International Records, where he had his greatest album success with the million-selling All Things in Time, subsequent albums, such as 1977s When You Hear Lou, Youve Heard It All yielded such hit singles as Lady Love

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Electric Light Orchestra
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The Electric Light Orchestra are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970, by songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan. Their music is characterised by a fusion of Beatlesque pop, classical arrangements, after Woods departure in 1972, Lynne became the bands leader, arranging and producing every album while writing virtually all of their original material. ELO were most active during the 1970s and 1980s, recording a string of albums that include the conceptual works Eldorado. For their initial tenure, Lynne, Bevan, and keyboard player Richard Tandy were the only consistent members. In 1986, Lynne lost interest in the band and ceased its operation, Bevan responded by forming his own band, ELO Part II, which later became The Orchestra. With the exception of a reformation in 2000–01, ELO remained largely inactive for the next three decades. In 2014, Lynne reformed the band again with Tandy as Jeff Lynnes ELO. From 1972 to 1986, ELO accumulated twenty Top 20 songs on the UK Singles Chart, the band also holds the record for having the most Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hits,20, of any band in the US chart history without having a number one single. On April 7,2017, ELO will be inducted into the Rock, the bands name is an intended pun based not only on electric light but also using electric rock instruments combined with a light orchestra. Jeff Lynne, frontman of fellow Birmingham group the Idle Race, was excited by the concept, in January 1970, when Carl Wayne left the Move, Lynne accepted Woods second invitation to join the band on the condition that they focus their energy on the new project. To help finance the band, one further Move album Message from the Country was also recorded during the lengthy ELO recordings. The resulting debut album The Electric Light Orchestra was released in 1971,10538 Overture became a UK top-ten hit. Lynne, Wood and Bev Bevan were the members of Electric Light Orchestra. However, this line-up did not last for long, first Craig departed, and then Wood, during the recordings for the bands second LP and taking Hunt and McDowell with him, left the band to form Wizzard. Both cited problems with their manager, Don Arden, and a tour of Italy. The new line-up performed at the 1972 Reading Festival, the band released their second album, ELO2 in 1973, which produced their second UK top 10 and their first US chart single, an elaborate version of the Chuck Berry classic Roll Over Beethoven. ELO also made their first appearance on American Bandstand show, the resulting album, On the Third Day, was released in late 1973, with the American version featuring the popular single Showdown. For the bands album, Eldorado, A Symphony, a concept album about a daydreamer, Lynne stopped overdubbing strings and hired an orchestra

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David Soul
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David Soul is an American-British actor and singer. He is known for his role as Detective Kenneth Hutch Hutchinson in the ABC television series Starsky & Hutch from 1975 to 1979 and he became a British citizen in 2004. Soul was born David Richard Solberg in Chicago, Illinois, on August 28,1943, dr. Solberg was also Senior Representative for Lutheran World Relief during the reconstruction of Germany after the Second World War from 1949 until 1956. Because of this, the family moved frequently while Soul was growing up, both of his grandfathers were evangelists. Soul attended Augustana College, University of the Americas in Mexico City, at 19, he turned down a professional baseball contract with the Chicago White Sox in order to study political science. While in Mexico, inspired by students who taught him to play the guitar, Soul changed his direction and his first appearance upon returning from Mexico to the States was in a club in Minneapolis, The 10 OClock Scholar. Soul first gained attention as the Covered Man appearing on The Merv Griffin Show in 1966 and 1967 and he explained, My name is David Soul, and I want to be known for my music. The same year, he made his debut in Flipper. The series was telecast on the ABC network from September 25,1968 to September 18,1970, in 1972 he co-starred as Arthur Hills law partner on Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law. Following numerous guest-starring roles on TV, including Streets of San Francisco and his breakthrough came when he portrayed Detective Ken Hutch Hutchinson on Starsky and Hutch, a role he played from 1975 until 1979. Soul also directed three episodes of Starsky and Hutch, Huggy Cant Go Home, Manchild on the Streets, and Survival. Soul also starred with James Mason in the 1979 TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen Kings Salems Lot, during the mid- to late-1970s, Soul returned to his singing roots. Produced by Tony Macaulay, he recorded hits including Dont Give Up on Us which reached No.1 in the US and the UK, from 1976 until 1978, he had five UK Top 20 singles and two Top 10 albums. From 1976 to 1982 he toured extensively in the US, Europe, Far East, in the U. S. he continued to make guest appearances in various television series. He starred in The Manions of America as Caleb Staunton in 1981 and he starred in the short-lived 1983 NBC series Casablanca, playing nightclub owner Rick Blaine, and co-starred in the NBC series The Yellow Rose during the 1983-1984 season. He also starred in the adaptation of Ken Folletts wartime drama The Key to Rebecca directed by David Hemmings. Soul also directed the episode No Exit of the 1980s TV series Miami Vice, in 1987 Soul was cast as Major Oldham in the movie The Hanoi Hilton. In the mid-1990s, Soul took up residence in London, United Kingdom, forging a new career on the West End stage, in 2003, Soul appeared in the first series of the BBCs Little Britain